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Monday May 28, 2012

noSQL / Hadoop gets ACID and random read access using HBase:
HBase on Apache
However, as this document notes:
1. Relational databases still have many features like typed columns, secondary indices and transactions.
2. Moving from an RDBMS to HBase is not simple. It is an application re-write for the most part.